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Psychological assessment

The psychological assessment section is focused on the advancement of psychological science such as practice and ethics of psychological assessment in its various contexts (including work on issues related to psychological measurement and psychometrics, adaptation, development, validation and standardization of instruments), the use of instruments for the purposes of psychological assessment, psychodiagnostic, evaluation of interventions or programs and case studies involving the use of instruments.

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  1. The stress experienced by parents in fulfilling their parental role has consequences for couple dynamics, parent–child interactions, and the mental health of parents. However, studies on the psychometric prope...

    Authors: Katlin T. González-López, Sheyra N. Vásquez-Chingay, Raquel A. Rodrigo-Tintaya, Flor V. Leiva-Colos, Wilter C. Morales-García and Cristian E. Adriano-Rengifo
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:42
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  2. The Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM), a pictorial scale for the measurement of pleasure and arousal dimensions of emotions, is one of the most applied tools in the emotion research field.

    Authors: Thayane C. Lemos, Laiz A. A. Silva, Sara D. J. Gaspar, Guilherme M. S. Coutinho, Jasmin B. Stariolo, Pedro G.M.R Oliveira, Lethicia S. Conceicao, Eliane Volchan and Isabel A. David
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:41
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  3. With the fast-paced advancements of robot technology, human–robot interaction (HRI) has become increasingly popular and complex, and self-efficacy in HRI has received extensive attention. Despite its popularit...

    Authors: Huixin Gao, Wei Wang, Chengli Huang, Xinru Xie, Duming Wang, Wei Gao and Jie Cai
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:40
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  4. To adapt the Charlotte Attitudes Toward Sleep (CATS) scale, the only self-assessment instrument measuring non-dysfunctional attitudes toward sleep, into Portuguese and to study its psychometric properties in a...

    Authors: Miguel Tecedeiro, Cátia Reis and João Marôco
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:36
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  5. The reliability and validity of the traditional Chinese version of the Cancer Survivors’ Self-Efficacy Scale (CS-SES-TC) has not been assessed.

    Authors: Ching-Hui Chien, Cheng-Keng Chuang, Chun-Te Wu, See-Tong Pang, Kuan-Lin Liu and Kai-Jie Yu
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:33
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  7. Anxiety and mood disorders are the main cause of illness in people under the age of 25, accounting for 45% of the global disease burden, whereas 4.6% of teenagers aged 15 to 19 are predicted to experience anxi...

    Authors: Saman Ijaz, Iffat Rohail and Shahid Irfan
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:31
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  9. The Confusion, Hubbub, and Order Scale (CHAOS in English Version) was originally developed in the USA by Matheny et al (Bringing order out of chaos: psychometric characteristics of the confusion, hubbub, and o...

    Authors: Marilia Ignácio de Espindola, Maria Laura Nogueira Pires, Renatha El Rafihi-Ferreira, Ana Regina Noto and Sabine Pompéia
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:26
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  10. Contemporary diagnostic frameworks in the realm of mental health have garnered criticism due to their categorical paradigm. Given the propensity of emotional disorders to manifest overlapping features, these f...

    Authors: Santiago Zarate-Guerrero, Leonidas Castro-Camacho, Yvonne Gomez-Maquet and Johanna Duran-Molina
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:25
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  12. Body image is the mental representation of the body and can be influenced by cognitive, biological, behavioral, sociocultural, and environmental factors. University students often encounter challenges related ...

    Authors: Felipe Machado Huguenin, Vitor Alexandre Rabelo de Almeida, Marcus Vinícius Freitas Rodrigues, Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira and Fabiane Frota da Rocha Morgado
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:22
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  13. The International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) is used to measure posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) symptoms, and the Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory-9 (PT...

    Authors: Isabelle Aprigio, Pedro Paulo Pires dos Santos and Gustavo Gauer
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:18
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  14. Skepticism has traditionally been associated with critical thinking. However, philosophy has proposed a particular type of skepticism, termed naive skepticism, which may increase susceptibility to misinformati...

    Authors: Rodrigo Ferrer-Urbina, Yasna Ramírez, Patricio Mena-Chamorro, Marcos Carmona-Halty and Geraldy Sepúlveda-Páez
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:6
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  15. Entrapment is the feeling of wanting to leave an unbearable situation but believing that there are no options to do so. An Arabic entrapment Scale will assist healthcare professionals in the region in the prev...

    Authors: Alfred Chabbouh, Elie Charro, Georges-Alain Al Tekle, Michel Soufia and Souheil Hallit
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:3
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  17. Leisure satisfaction is the degree of positive perception and emotions that an individual acquires as a result of participating in leisure time activities, and it has an important function in maintaining and i...

    Authors: Elif Köse, Hüseyin Gökçe, Neşe Toktaş, Tennur Yerlisu Lapa and Evren Tercan Kaas
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:1
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  18. The area of self-regulated learning integrates the fields of metacognition and self-regulation and assumes that the student is an active processor of information capable of self-regulating his learning by putt...

    Authors: Jhonys de Araujo, Cristiano Mauro Assis Gomes and Enio Galinkin Jelihovschi
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:38
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  20. There is an interrelationship between the concepts of social exclusion, compulsive buying behavior, fear of missing out (FoMO), and narcissism. Nevertheless, the extent to which these concepts mediate or moder...

    Authors: Merve Mert and Dilaver Tengilimoğlu
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:33
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  22. Phubbing behavior is a phenomenon that consists in ignoring people in situations of social interaction whilst paying attention to one’s smartphone. The study of this behavior enables reflection on the developm...

    Authors: Adriane de Almeida Santos, Breno de Oliveira Ferreira, Consuelena Lopes Leitão, Iolete Ribeiro da Silva and Marck de Souza Torres
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:24
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  24. The aim of the present study was to translate into Spanish and evaluate the psychometric evidence of the Impact on Quality of Life (COV19-QoL) applied to a sample of Peruvian older adults (N = 298; 58.1% women, 4...

    Authors: Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Carlos Carbajal-León, Lindsey W. Vilca, Mario Reyes-Bossio, Miguel Gallegos, Renzo Carranza Esteban, Martin Noe-Grijalva, Walter L. Arias Gallegos, Mariel Delgado-Campusano and Águeda Muñoz-del-Carpio-Toia
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:13
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  25. To test the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) in an online format in university students from a low-income region.

    Authors: Antonio Gibran de Almeida Cardoso, Millena Vaz de Carvalho, Maria Isabela Alves de Almeida Silva, Alaiana Marinho Franco, Fernando Rodrigues Peixoto Quaresma, Erika Da Silva Maciel and Marcus Vinicius Nascimento-Ferreira
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:12
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  26. The present study therefore aims to examine trait and state anxiety, sleep habits and executive functioning during 1 year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic in children and adolescents through the lens of par...

    Authors: Ignasi Navarro-Soria, Borja Costa-López, Joshua A. Collado-Valero, Rocío Juárez-Ruiz de Mier and Rocío Lavigne-Cervan
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:8
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  27. The present study aimed to adapt and validate the Beliefs About Losing Control Inventory (BALCI) in the non-clinical Turkish emerging adults sample. The study group consisted of 549 participants from three stu...

    Authors: Oğuz Mercan and Fedai Kabadayı
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:7
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  28. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely used in fields such as medical treatment, while the threat of artificial intelligence has also received extensive attent...

    Authors: Jie Cai, Zixuan Xu, Xiaoning Sun, Xiaojun Guo and Xurong Fu
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:5
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  29. This study aimed to evidence the validity and reliability of the Ecuadorian version of the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale, one of the most studied concepts of positive psychology. The adaptation process includ...

    Authors: Andrea M. Vinueza-Solórzano, Ronald Enrique Campoverde, Cecilia Alexandra Portalanza-Chavarría, Clarissa P. P. de Freitas, Claudio Simon Hutz and Ana Claudia Souza Vazquez
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:3
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  30. Persistence involves the intention to maintain efforts when faced with obstacles and challenges, in order to achieve a specific goal. The Rigid and Flexible Persistence Scale (RFPS) is a self-report measure th...

    Authors: Evandro Morais Peixoto, Marcus Vinicius Silva, Ana Paula Porto Noronha, Tanya Chichekian and Robert J. Vallerand
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:1
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  31. One of the most significant human qualities is the ability to develop, implement, and flexibly maintain planned behaviour in order to achieve one’s goals. Self-regulation has become a relatively well-researche...

    Authors: Jitka Vaculíková, Ilona Kočvarová, Jan Kalenda, Zuzana Neupauer, Marija Cvijetić Vukčević and Anna Włoch
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:40
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  32. The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the physical and mental health of individuals. Measures required to prevent the spread of the virus, such as isolation, hygiene, mask use, and lockdown, led individuals...

    Authors: Aslı Kartol and Osman Söner
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:38
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  33. The Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI) is a new 60-item self-report scale developed to assess the specific components of psychological flexibility and inflexibility proposed in the Hex...

    Authors: Zahra Azadfar, Abbas Abdollahi, Indrajit Patra, Ya-Ping Chang, Tawfeeq Alghazali and Saad Ghazi Talib
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:32
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  34. Positive thinking is a form of positive cognition and a coping strategy. The Positive Thinking Scale (PTS) is used to measure positive thinking, but the reliability and validity of the PTS-Chinese have yet to ...

    Authors: Ching-Hui Chien and Yi-Wen Huang
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:31
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  35. In sports context, the motivational climate has been widely studied since 2000, when the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sports Questionnaire-2 (PMCSQ-2) was published. Evaluating athletes’ perceptions of th...

    Authors: Daniel Perez Arthur, Mayara Juliana Paes, Thais do Amaral Machado and Joice Mara Facco Stefanello
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:28
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  36. The Mood Disorders Questionnaire (MDQ) is a 3-item scale that is frequently used in bipolar disorders (BD) screening and questions the symptoms of BD, its effect on functionality, and the coexistence of sympto...

    Authors: Numan Konuk, Elif Karaahmet, Ülkem Angın, Alperen Kılıç and Zekeriya Kökrek
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:26
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  37. The family plays an essential role in the life of an adolescent. Hence, an acceptable understanding and an evaluation of family functioning is fundamental for effective interventions with adolescents in the ps...

    Authors: María I. Vegas, Manuel Mateos-Agut, Pedro J. Pineda-Otaola and Carlota Sebastián-Vega
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:18
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  38. Trust in automation plays a leading role in human-automation interaction. As there lack of scales measuring trust in automation in China, the purpose of this study was to adapt the trust between People and Aut...

    Authors: Jie Cai, Qian Sun, Zeyue Mu and Xiaoning Sun
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:15
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  39. The Spanish version of the 5-item Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS-5) is a brief measure of the general tendency to be attentive and aware of experiences in the present moment during daily life. The MAA...

    Authors: Mario Reyes-Bossio, Emilio Lafferrnaderie Zapparigli, Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Carlos Carbajal-León, Luis Alberto Olavarria Castaman, Giovana Lourdes Hernandez Pino, Raymundo Calderon Sanchez and Sergio Barbosa-Granados
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:12
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  40. The understanding of how individuals manage their emotional experiences has flourished dramatically over the last decades, including assessing of emotion (dys)regulation. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation...

    Authors: Patrícia Gouveia, Catarina Ramos, José Brito, Telma C. Almeida and Jorge Cardoso
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:11
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  41. The traumatic event produces intolerable excitations to the psychic apparatus that searches to relief them through the production of symptoms. When established, patients with post-traumatic stress disorders (P...

    Authors: Taís Cristina Favaretto, Luciane Maria Both, Sílvia Pereira da Cruz Benetti and Lúcia Helena Machado Freitas
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:9
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  42. Self-handicapping strategies refer to the set of choices and attitudes adopted to minimize blame for failure and increase the value of success in achievement situations. This paper aims to describe the stages ...

    Authors: Evely Boruchovitch, Sueli Edi Rufini, Danielle Ribeiro Ganda, Lucia Cerqueira Miranda and Leandro Silva de Almeida
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:8
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  43. Phubbing is defined as ignoring other individuals by using a mobile phone during a face-to-face conversation. The Phubbing Scale (PS) was developed to assess this practice. In this study, we analyze the psycho...

    Authors: F. Javier García-Castro, Ana Maria Abreu, Belén Rando and María J. Blanca
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:7
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  44. Short-term memory is a dynamic psychological process that operates within a network in which non-verbal intelligence and attentional domains are connected. However, no consensus has been reached about which pr...

    Authors: Luis Anunciação, Anna Portugal, Ivan Rabelo and J. Landeira-Fernandez
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:35
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  45. The short version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) is a popular instrument used to assess quality of life. The objective of this study was to evaluate the following ...

    Authors: Sandra Lima-Castro, Paúl Arias-Medina, Alexandra Bueno-Pacheco, Eva Peña-Contreras, Mónica Aguilar-Sizer and Marcela Cabrera-Vélez
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:29
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  47. This study presents the development of the Psychosocial Uncertainty Scale (PS-US), which articulates the perception of uncertainty in the social context and its psychological experience. It was validated with ...

    Authors: Mariana Lucas Casanova, Lara S. Pacheco, Patrício Costa, Rebecca Lawthom and Joaquim Luís Coimbra
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:25
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  48. The Kessler Distress Scale (K10) is a self-report scale for the assessment of non-specific psychological distress in the general and clinical population. Because of its ease of application and good psychometri...

    Authors: Evandro Morais Peixoto, Daniela Sacramento Zanini and Josemberg Moura de Andrade
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:21
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  49. Collective efficacy, defined as a group’s shared belief about its conjoint capability to organize and execute courses of action, plays a pivotal role in understanding the dynamics of sports teams, since it inf...

    Authors: Mylena Aparecida Rodrigues Alves, Marcus Vinicius de Souza Lencina, Mayara Juliana Paes and Joice Mara Facco Stefanello
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:18
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  50. This study’s main purpose was to examine the psychometric properties of FoMOs’ adaptation among the Indonesian adolescents’ population. The second aim was to investigate the concurrent validity of the Indonesi...

    Authors: Dian Veronika Sakti Kaloeti, Ayu Kurnia S and Valentino Marcel Tahamata
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:15
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